“Sonic Youth have always had an eccentric taste for melody, but they’ve rarely indulged it as blatantly as they do on Rather Ripped. Damn if these grizzled art-punk elders aren’t trying to make a pop album a good fifteen years after that would have made any commercial sense. Most of the twelve tunes hover around […]”
“Latest album from the legendary NYC band is also its tautest, a record full of propulsive, three-minute art-pop songs.”
